Local and Family History
Enquiry Tips

Enquiry tips

• If you send an enquiry at the weekend please note that our libraries are closed on Sundays. We would therefore not be able to deal with your enquiry until the following Monday
• You can find a great deal of information on the Virtual Library, including concise information on popular topics, digitised information such as articles, photographs and street directories, details of information held in the libraries and links to useful web sites
• Please provide some background to your question. It would help us to know which sources you have already used
• Local studies projects, essays and assignments - we can help by pointing you to information sources on a particular topic but we cannot provide written essays in answer to your questions
• Family history - whilst we can help with many specific family history enquiries, we cannot undertake exhaustive genealogical research
• Maps - because of copyright restrictions we can only supply extracts from maps that are no longer in copyright

Comments and suggestions

• You can use the contact us online form to send us your comments and suggestions too. We look forward to hearing from you!